Camtasia Studio
April 7, 2009 by kevin · Leave a Comment
Camtasia Studio
A fantastic tool for capturing your computer screen and anything that is on it. Camtasia Studio even has a plug in for PowerPoint so you can record your presentations without leaving PowerPoint. Add annotations, zoom in on the screen and export your finished product to a lot of different video formats including MPEG 4. Rumors have it that a MAC version will be released sometime this year.
Camtasia Studio also integrates with Camtasia Relay, a lecture capture system for a really cool system for capturing and publishing presentations. Educational pricing makes this tool a must have for educators building fully online courses and tutorials.
JW Media Player -
April 6, 2009 by kevin · Leave a Comment
JW Media Player
A flash based free media player that touts itself as the most popular player on the web. We are using it at USU now for all of our online videos and we really like it. It just works and has lowered our technical support issues with students. It is flash based so students only need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed on their computer (and I bet they all do, but some may need to upgrade). We love it because it supports closed captioning.
Visit the website for tutorials, information, and lots of examples on how to use it.
Episode Desktop - Video Compression and Encoding Software
April 6, 2009 by kevin · Leave a Comment
Episode Desktop - Video Compression and Encoding Software
Telestream is realitively new to the digital video market but they came in with a bang. I was first introduced to them at EDUCAUSE when they partnered with Apple to show off their Episode Podcast plug-in for Apples Podcast Producer.
Episode Desktop is a compression and encoding software package that the pros use. It is easy to use and comes with many presets. With presests you can tweak them and create your own for the way you want things to work. This is a fantastic tool, from a fantastic company, who makes a lot of other cool tools.
You might recognize the name from Flip for Mac. Software for your Mac that allows you to play Windows Media files within Quicktime.
